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Someone once said to me, “I hope the pain eases soon.” It struck me as the purest blessing that had ever been offered over my head - I hope the pain eases soon. It’s so gentle, so kind, so hopeful. So to everyone who’s hurting: I see how hard you’re trying, and I hope your pain will ease soon.

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新年快乐 🎊 Happy Lunar New Year!!

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'The Blue Poetry Book' by Andrew Lang. Illustration by Lancelot Speed.

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Arborist - maple

ink + watercolour

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“You speak like the night.”

— Alejandra Pizarnik, from Extracting the Stone of Madness: Poems 1962 - 1972; Encounter.

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“I love it, it devours me. I adore it without illusions.”

— Violette Leduc, from “Thérèse et Isabelle,” originally published c. 1966

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“but how could you live and have no story to tell?”- Fyodor Dostoevsky

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Teddy wandered his way through a field of scree to the bottom of Dart Glacier and encountered the wasteland of glacial tillings left behind in it's recession.

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